The Desert Away from Home: Amos Oz’s Memoir, Levinasian

“The Rational Administration of Compassion”: The Origins

1850 statehood to 1872. On September 8, 1850, California entered the US as the 31st state of the union. At the time marriage statutes described marriage as "a civil contract to which the consent of the parties is required" [9] with gender specific pronouns applied to "husband" and "wife".